Patrick van der Leer

I smacked the living shit out of it and threw it across the room, I haven’t felt this good in a long time.

Every once in a while you run into a problem that simply doesn’t make sense at all, each new piece of information contradicts the previous one while you continue to go down the rabbit hole. One of those situations that makes you completely doubt everything you know and do, well, here’s the tale of server AP012.

I got into a situation where I got a minimal setup, fairly small VPS for a test/staging server which was behind a VPN. For a project I needed to deploy frontend services but rather than a Kubernetes setup I needed to get the same basic features on a simple bare VPS where I wasn’t even root at.

A number of years ago I started setting up a DIY NAS, before that I simply had a stack of external hard drives. At the time I switched a lot between Linux and Windows, the NTFS support wasn’t great and since life is too short to remove devices safely I usually just unplugged them causing Linux to refuse to mount since “the partition was still active”. So FAT32 it was…

Let’s take a look at how an online casinos actually works, and discus what they actually do and especially what they don’t.

Setting up MQTT broker with SSL, the easy/lazy way.

The default auto devops is based on 2 major parts, the auto-deploy-image and the auto-deploy-app . We’ll go through both of them and take a look the standard possibilities they provide.

How to route traffic via a reverse proxy, i.e. Nginx , in KinD .

A short post about how I use KinD to test my Kubernetes with Helm and Helmfile .

A short post about how I use GitLab CI/CD to automagically deploy to Kubernetes using Helm and Helmfile .